A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, 2015
Four friends arrive in New York after college and try to make art, money, and a family out of one another.
Hanya Yanagihara
Before she became editor of T, Yanagihara worked at Condé Nast Traveler—the day job she held while writing A Little Life.
Feels like tenderness, friendship and defiance.
The hardest part of friendship is letting someone tell you the truth.
JB was going through, as he put it, his hair phase. Recently he had decided to take a break from painting in favor of making sculptures from black hair. Each of them had spent an exhausting weekend following JB from barbershop to beauty shop in Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Manhattan, waiting outside as JB went in to ask the owners for any sweepings or cuttings they might have, and then lugging an increasingly awkward bag of hair down the street after him. His early pieces had included The Mace, a tennis ball that he had de-fuzzed, sliced in half, and filled with sand before coating it in glue and rolling it around and around in a carpet of hair so that the bristles moved like seaweed underwater, and “The Kwotidien,” in which he covered various household items—a stapler; a spatula; a teacup—in pelts of hair. Books by Hanya Yanagihara
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